Serving the State of Michigan

The University of Michigan Health System serves patients, health care providers and communities throughout the state of Michigan. We work to improve health care in the state with our initiatives, affiliations and partnerships, and health research.

U-M Transplant Center provides care for progressive organ failure and transplantation, including heart, lung, kidney, liver and pancreas. It holds a Kidney Transplant Evaluation clinic in Kalamazoo once a month to complete an initial assessment of a patient's potential for kidney transplant.

Helping Health Care Providers

We have specialists assigned to help referring physicians with their needs and help them navigate our Health System.

We provide educational resources, including CME activities, to help physicians and others keep up-to-date about the latest medical treatments and discoveries.

Through the Lean Clinical Redesign Coordinating Center, we provide Lean training to physicians throughout the state to build internal capabilities for continuous improvement for health care organizations and clinic teams.

Helping with adoption of Electronic Health Records, UMHS is an active part of the Michigan Center for Effective IT Adoption - or M-CEITA, a consortium set up to help health care providers across the state with electronic health records.

Survival Flight, the University of Michigan's air medical transport service that transports critically ill or injured patients, also provides quality training programs for firefighters and EMS professionals all over the state with, including a bimonthly “EMS Night Out” and a mobile training unit.

Helping Communities

The U-M Trauma Burn Center's Community Outreach programs address the medical and social consequences of injury and disability. Prevention programs address preventable injuries to children, adolescents, and adults, including drug and alcohol prevention for adolescents, juvenile fire prevention, and senior safety. Its team also present sat community health fairs, fire safety open houses and school programs K-12.

As the State Burn Coordinating Center, the Trauma Burn Center plays a crucial statewide role should a burn disaster occur anywhere in the state of Michigan. In addition to having expert multidisciplinary teams available for deployment to assist other institutions with secondary triage, its staff trains and prepares burn center personnel throughout the state to respond to disasters.

Improving Health Care in Michigan

Quality & safety programs: the University of Michigan Health System has been asked to lead and participate in several quality and safety programs in the state of Michigan and across the U.S. These programs have become models for the rest of the country.

Radiation Oncology Network is a group of seven centers partnering with the University of Michigan to provide radiation therapy in Alpena, Ann Arbor, Jackson, Lansing, Mt. Pleasant, Novi, Southfield and Wyoming (Grand Rapids area). We treat patients with brain, head and neck, breast, lung, liver, pancreatic and prostate cancer.

Pennant Health Alliance is a joint initiative between Metro Health, Trinity Health and the University of Michigan Health System to strengthen independent community hospitals and physician practices in Western Michigan and elsewhere.

Physician Organization of Michigan (POM): created by the Physicians' Organization of Western Michigan and the University of Michigan Health System to enable doctors and doctor groups in the state to stay independent and focus on caring for patients.

Partnership with nursing homes in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti & Canton. The U-M Health System provides medical support for 5 nursing homes, independently owned and operated skilled nursing facilities. The medical records for the patients are fully accessible to the U-M Health System.

Several West Michigan hospitals are participating in six different efforts coordinated by U-M teams, all aimed at improving the quality of health care while also containing costs and avoiding complications.

U-M and hospitals such as the Meijer Heart Center, Metropolitan Health and St. Mary's Healthcare are making great strides in improving how angioplasties, breast cancer operations, open-heart operations, bariatric surgeries, heart-imaging scans and artery-clearing procedures through "value partnerships" are allowing hospitals to share data and best practices.

Clinical Collaborations Research Collaborations: The U-M Health System has numerous clinical and research collaborations in West Michigan.

Health Research

Clinical research studies: The University of Michigan Health System Web Portal for Clinical Research provides a searchable database of UM Clinical studies includes eligibility criteria and contact information and explains what clinical research is all about, why you might want to volunteer, and how your health and safety are protected if you take part in a study.